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January 6 and Executive Privilege

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English - October 11, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.7K ratings
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It's executive privilege day on Advisory Opinions! After a brief update on the Texas abortion litigation, David and Sarah "dive right in" to a discussion of the January 6 commission subpoenas and the power of Donald Trump to use executive privilege to block testimony. Our hosts also talk about how "parents and pals" help debunk a Brett Kavanaugh conspiracy theory. And they wind up with a crazy clemency case that's likely to leave a man in prison because a Donald Trump sentence was just too ambiguous.



Show Notes:


-5th Circuit abortion ruling


-POGO “The Limits of Executive Privilege”


-Nixon v. Administrator of General Services


-Harvard Law “Can Donald Trump still assert executive privilege?”


-2007 OLC memo


-Don McGahn opinion


-Mother Jones “Here’s the Truth About Brett Kavanaugh’s Finances”